Litbrit

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

The terrible price of acquiescence

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Cassandra I heard one who said: "Verily, What word have I for children here? Your Dollar is your only Word, The wrath of it your only f...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Here's to you, Alan Grayson--A liberal turns her lonely eyes to you

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I know I'm not alone in hoping that Florida Congressman Alan Grayson returns to Washington soon. He's been one of the very few Good...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

TSA "logic" explained: I'm going to need to see you naked before you get on your flight.

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"When I contemplate the natural dignity of man, when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the ho...
Friday, November 05, 2010

Meet Florida's next governor

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I had not seen this footage, compiled by the Alex Sink campaign, prior to this morning--a full three days after the midterms. And I'm gu...
Wednesday, November 03, 2010

What all the hot air boiled down to

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Yesterday morning, after I'd taken my two younger sons to school and before I would take my eldest son to the polls to vote in his first...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Today in poetically synchronous modern fables

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Mural by Bansky; Canal Street, NYC The New York Times : Replying to Report, Halliburton Says BP Is to Blame in Gulf WASHINGTON — Halliburton...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

There was a restrainer below and a stomper above; see--two sides!

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In a statement sent to the Associated Press, [Tim] Profitt (with Rand Paul, above) has admitted placing his shoe firmly on the face of a Lau...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Muslims wearing things: A post in which I ease back into blogging

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Greetings and salutations to anyone still reading here at my little corner. I've been dealing with a rather enormous body of...stuff, I...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Better than Esther?

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Vanity Fair writer Michael Gross is staying on the Palin beat, having recently published a rather chilling e-mail, sent shortly before the ...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Do big cats like catnip?

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Of course they do. My favorite moment is when the roly-poly cheetah suddenly pauses and stares at you with this slightly guilty look on his ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

How to do a great political ad: Dan Gelber for Florida Attorney General

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Rising above--far, far above--the mudslinging and vitriol of the typical ad, this one instead imparts a strong sense of the candidate's ...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Boléro , three ways

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Instead of doing a Friday Frank post, I thought I'd riff on one of FZ's best-known "classical covers": Boléro , by French ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Alan Grayson on "Bozo the Spokesman" and Stockholm Syndrome at the White House

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Yes, he's awesome. Yes, he's Floridian. No, we're not interested in swapping him for one of your Congresscritters, thankyouve...

Alpha Dog of the week: Steven Slater

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Alpha Dog of the Week - Steven Slater www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Oth...
Saturday, August 07, 2010

The Obamas are wonderful parents

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La Bella de Marbella: Sasha Obama, Spain; August 6, 2010 Because despite having lived in a fishbowl for the past few years and had her every...
Friday, August 06, 2010

From the department of unexpected benefits: It's a jungle out there

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Zoologists at the Bronx Zoo and wildlife conservation biologists working in the Guatemalan rainforest find that cloth soaked in Calvin Klein...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

I break for beauty: The affirming colors of light, of poetry, and of reason

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Double rainbow over Kīlauea, Hawai`i, the world's most active volcano. I took this shot from the window of a helicopter in June 2005. Lo...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Truth dispersed and disposed is truth denied: Conflicting stories about BP's oil spill in the Gulf

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"...dolphins whales, seabirds fish are all floating dead on the surface of the water.. see more.. see more.. boats helicopters are scoo...
Monday, August 02, 2010

When the few do not represent the many

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On April 19, 1995, an American terrorist named Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ...
Sunday, August 01, 2010

How I go to church on Sunday mornings

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Angel faces I walk around the house at dawn with no shoes on and sometimes yawn (but softly, though as if I stepped through quiet snow as I ...
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Deborah Newell
Born in England and educated there, as well as in Barbados, Honduras, and the United States. Received a Bachelor's from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications in 1981. Created the blog litbrit in 2006. Lives with her husband, three sons, and several large and loyal attack dogs and trained-assassin felines, in sunny Florida, USA.
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